Scott Brown is poised to hand Celtic a huge 10-in-a-row boost by turning his back on a dream move to Australia – and putting pen to paper on a new two-year Parkhead deal.

Record Sport revealed yesterday Brown had KO’d a £40,000-week offer from Dubai-based outfit Al-Wasli, leaving a straight choice between committing himself to Scotland’s champions or accepting a long-standing deal to become the poster boy for A-League new boys Western Melbourne.

Now we can reveal Brown is set to turn the Aussie adventure down after more than two months soul-searching over the move.

It’s understood Brown finally made his mind up on Tuesday following a further round of discussions with Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell.

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And the 33-year-old has already notified Melbourne of his decision to stay put.

Lou Sticca, part of the Western Melbourne consortium said: “We are delighted for Scott to extend his glorious career at Celtic.

“While we are disappointed Scott will not be joining our inaugural campaign we fully understand what Celtic means to Scott and what Scott means to Celtic.”

Brendan Rodgers is also hoping for more good news in the final 48 hours of the January transfer window.

The manager is hopeful of finally recruiting a new right-back – with talks ongoing over a loan move for Borussia Dortmund’s Jeremy Toljan. Rodgers is also adamant he will not sanction any last-minute sales from his group of first-team regulars.

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Celtic’s preparations for this campaign were undermined on the last day of August when Moussa Dembele forced through a £20million move to Lyon at the 11th hour. But asked if he felt Celtic might be vulnerable to last-minute bids he said: “Yeah, there is always that possibility.

“It’s a window where we want to strengthen, we certainly don’t want to weaken the squad. All the players here, I expect to stay.

"If we can get one or two in it would help to make us strong. There are some areas we are looking at.”

With Filip Benkovic’s injury being assessed amid concern the Croat’s season might be over, Rodgers could want defensive cover, as well as hoping to land a deal for Toljan.

Negotiations with the Germans were continuing last night but an agreement is yet to be nailed down.

Lewis Morgan was on the brink of leaving Celtic last night for a short-term move to Sunderland while Ukrainian winger Maryan Shved is set to seal his switch from Karpaty Lviv today.